Drawing from her forthcoming book, Morgan G. Ames will chronicle the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explain why — despite its failures — the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development. Dr. Ames will also discuss her recent work on inequalities and technology in California, which includes investigations of youth cultures, Minecraft, and generational differences in programming “origin stories.”

Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people Al is biased against?

Join Cal Poly's Center for Expressive Technologies (CET} for a showing of the film at 2:30 pm, followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker, Shalini Kantayya, moderated by Professor Deb Donig at 4 pm.

Join us for a Fireside chat with global tech critic and leader Yaël Eisenstat.

Yaël is a Future of Democracy Fellow at Berggruen Institute and a Researcher-in-Residence at Betalab, working at the intersection of tech, democracy, and policy. She has spent 20 years working around the globe on democracy and security issues as a CIA officer, a White House advisor, the Global Head of Elections Integrity Operations for political advertising at Facebook.

She has become a key voice and public advocate for transparency and accountability in tech, particularly where real-world-consequences affect democracy and societies around the world.